But in fact, those that require that fertility treatments or mental health services be included in the health insurance plans they offer through their new exchanges in 2014 will drive down the average cost of coverage for those services.
The average monthly Cobra bill for family health coverage has surged to 83% of the average monthly unemployment-insurance check, up from about 61% in 2001, according to Families USA, a nonprofit group focusing on health-care issues.
Based on preliminary Sageworks estimates for 2012, debt-service coverage for the average private company is more than five times.
For example, a 2012 study from the Rand Corporation, a policy research institute, found that families with consumer-directed health coverage, like HSA plans, spent an average of 21 percent less the first year after switching from traditional coverage.
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A. Once your firm reaches 50 full-time equivalent employees, a penalty will kick in if you fail to provide coverage for employees who average 30 or more hours a week in a given month.
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The average price of employer-sponsored family coverage nearly doubled between 2002 and 2012, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a new study showing that the average annual premium for family health insurance coverage jumped about 9% this year, a much steeper rise than in previous years.
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Although popularly sold as a means of reducing overall health-care costs, the creators of the ACA knew that the inclusion of such provisions as the mandatory coverage of pre-existing conditions and the setting of premiums based on average costs rather than actuarial costs would necessarily increase the total cost of such coverage.
Recommended coverage levels are 90% - the national average is approximately 84%.
So far this year, an average of 4.1 million viewers have watched final-round coverage of the network's three tournament broadcasts.
That would put upward pressure on average premiums and cause greater numbers of healthier people to defer buying coverage until they needed costly care.
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As the table below shows, these factors have enabled Nokia to maintain a healthy interest coverage ratio and quick ratio (nearly equal to the industry average), dispensing any immediate liquidity concerns.
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Prices are reasonable, electricity blackouts are relatively rare, and even if the average wait for a phone line is over eight months, Costa Rica has better telephone coverage than much of the region (see chart).
Many actuaries, such as those in the international consulting firm Oliver Wyman, are now predicting an average increase of roughly 50% in premiums for some in the individual market for the same coverage.
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Unsurprisingly, the companies that received the most positive coverage had performed well before the stories were published: their share prices had, on average, outperformed the index by 42.7% once adjusted for sector and size.
These traveling billboards may not be worth their cost (an average of one free meal a week each), but the antics won the restaurant priceless local TV coverage.
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